haiku

poetry

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

translator

university teacher

literary critic

poet

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

is an art dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence.

Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.

is inhabiting the interior of the rhythm of ways of seeing.

And poetry, to my understanding, is not about saying things, though obviously poems that have interesting things to say are more interesting than poems that don’t. And it is not quite accurate to say that they are about dramatizing the act of saying things or, in the case of an inward poetry, thinking things or, in a quicker and more visceral poetry, perceiving and sensing things. Or at least saying that poetry does these things only takes us partway into them. To go the rest of the way, one needs a formulation that somehow says that poetry inhabits the interior of the rhythm of its way of seeing, its way of dramatizing what it is to say a thing, or think it, or perceive it, or—taking writing as an act of painting—do it.

is not about saying things, but about dramatizing what it is to say a thing, or think it, or perceive it, do it.

Robert Hass

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